...the details that affected individual countries. Roosevelt’s other pet project, the United Nations, would, he was determined, ensure a peaceful environment that permitted US disengagement. The Second World War had...
...(1773) which was a significant factor in provoking the American War of Independence Interesting facts North was in office when the United States of America declared independence Keep tabs on...
...a major triumph for Pitt, which saw the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland come into being on 1 January 1801. ‘Oh my country! How I leave my country!’ Pitt...
...a friendship with the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and promotion to the United Kingdom peerage in 1814. But he did not hold office again until 1828, devoting himself instead...
...world organisation, the United Nations, already seemed unlikely to fulfil the aspirations of its Charter. The wartime Allies−Britain, the US and the USSR−had lost their common purpose and with it...
...the midst of Cold War tension could not afford to put any further pressure on its relationship with the United States by altering this position. Moving the tournament altogether...
...1917, shortly after his arrival at No.10. It would prove to be a precursor to an administrative model that continues to function today. David Lloyd George, 1906, The National Archives,...
...my visit today. I found the various briefings and demonstrations of the greatest possible interest. I was much impressed by the knowledge, dedication and professionalism of those whom I met....
...still decorate the room today. However, despite arriving at the present arrangement essentially by chance, there was little appetite for radically rethinking No. 10’s core layout to suit the changing...
...buildings, (GOGGS), which remain its main home today.[iv] The Crawford Committee had recommended that the reconstruction of the Old Treasury should be carried out concurrently with the required works on...